I gathered some info, in defense of whales… (being a jobless hippie, I really do have far too much free time… but I wouldn’t have it any other way!)

Blue whales occur in all the oceans, primarily along the edge of continental shelves, but they also venture into deep oceanic areas and shallow inshore regions.
They live at the surface of the ocean, and are most commonly seen individually or in pairs.

Kyle: I’m not sure what your image is supposed to suggest. Is the small part of the scale 80ft, and the large part 200ft? Are you saying these are too big to be whales, or just right? From what I can tell it looks like the size is about right.

The rest of you lot: For shame. This is turning into a Slashdot like free for all.

As for the image goes, I can certainly see two shapes that could resemble whales. Its pretty hard to conclusively say though, even after playing around with the image in photoshop. Try googling for “whales aerial” and you can see some closer up images of whales from above. I’m waiting to see what a professional pilot or whale watcher will have to say

I did some comparisons between the MSN map and the Google map, by overlaying the images in photoshop – and found that they are eerily similar in location, but that MSN object is approx twice the size of the potential whales. I calculate the “whales” to be approx 70 ft in length, and the MSN object to be approx 125 ft in length… according to the google distance key.

When my brother crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the first time, to go to Canada (we’re from France), he was watching through the aircraft window and thinking that this ocean was really disgusting and polluated because of the plastic bags he was seeing on the water…

then the pilot said: “on the right side you may observe some icebergs on the ocean!”… pollution, hey?

I think you’re right. Two mating whales!
Now go on searching for two mating elephants, deers, mice and human couples?

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